Sunday, December 09, 2012

Once we get there...

Once we get there, we'll pick up the truck from the port (hopefully it'll get there before us - Darrell is driving it to St Louis in late January) and drive to the hotel. We've reserved two rooms with a shared door - THANK GOODNESS - and we'll be there until we get a house. We're hoping to live on post, and there's absolutely no way to know how long it'll take.

Darrell will sign in from the airport (required) and I have no idea how quickly he'll go through in-processing.

The hotel is zoned for the same schools as the housing area we want, so the boys will start school within a few days of our arrival. I think we're good to go on paperwork and immunizations and such.

The dogs will have arrived before we left Pennsylvania and will remain at a kennel until we get a house. We'll visit often and hope we get a house quickly. They won't have to stay in quarantine since we've already worked through that process - they'll be released to a pet mover company we've hired to pick them up from the airport and take them to the kennel.

My car should arrive a few weeks after we do. Our household goods could take as long as two months. If we're lucky enough to get a house before our stuff gets to the island, Army Community Service has "aloha furniture" we'll borrow in the meantime. Basic beds, table, couch, dishes - you get the idea.

I've been applying to jobs for weeks now. I've had one interview so far, but have heard nothing about that position, nor any others I've applied for. Once we're about 30 days before arrival, I can apply for participation in the Spouse Priority Placement Program (info here). Hopefully, I won't be too long without a job.